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Thousands march in Oaxaca to mark anniversary of 1968 student massacre

Il Gattopardo | 03.10.2007 21:29 | Oaxaca Uprising | Repression | Social Struggles | World

On Tuesday 2nd October between 2-3,000 students and members of the local popular resistance APPO ( the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca)marched from the edge of Oaxaca city centre to the Zocalo (central square).

Among them were around a hundred masked youth who extensively spray painted walls on the route with slogans to commemorate the 1968 student massacres, condemn the corrupt local governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, call for the release of political prisoners and a boycott of local elections this Sunday.

In 1968 in Mexico City, just before the Olympics 200-300 demonstrating students were massacred by the security forces with the complicity of the CIA.

Before the march some local youth had acquired spray cans from a local shop - 2 were arrested as a consequence according to local media. The march started from the Fuente de las 7 Regiones around 2 miles from the centre with no police or security forces present.

It was made up of several blocks - the masked up and more radical at the front, followed by the communist/Marxist red flag waving contingent, with mainly teachers at the back.

The march progressed with different representatives taking turns on the megaphone whilst the hoodies and balaclava clad liberally adorned the colonial archictecture. Most notably the Justice Ministry and the Governor´s Palace on the Zocalo were redecorated. By the following morning, however, most of the redecoration had disappeared under the brush strokes of the super-efficient clean-up squads whose work can be seen on walls all over the city, blotches of colour designed to obscure the reality of murder, torture, detention and intimidation that Oaxaca has had more than its fair share of recently.

On reaching the Zocalo speeches were given affirming that resistance is very much alive in Oaxaca city and Oaxaca state but the crowd quickly dwindled as the sun went down. According to local media a further 6 people were arrested leaving the demo.

Schools had been closed all over Oaxaca state as teachers called a two-day strike on Monday and Tuesday.

The only visible presence of the security forces during the march was a helicopter which very quickly circled the Zocalo. On Monday the usually visible presence of various branches of the security forces were also absent from the Zocalo as a smaller rally was held and resistance paraphanalia (videos, CDs, clothing, literature) sold.

For more visit:
www.oaxacalibre.org
For photos visit:
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/12940191@N08/

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